Public Health & Preventive Medicine

There are several books on the market now that claim to take readers into the intricacies of health economics 'from first principles'. To me, this ...

Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest among historians, medical authorities, and government officials in the 191...

This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its a...

This open access casebook addresses complex and important ethical challenges arising when health-related research in conducted in the context of ep...

What to expect from the new edition: ·       Full discussion on the impacts from Covid-19 on health strategy ·       Increased emphasis on up...

What to expect from the new edition: ·       Full discussion on the impacts from Covid-19 on health strategy ·       Increased emphasis on up...

If you want to understand how the latest advances in genomics and AI can completely transform your health, and to translate this promise into pract...

Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of ...

Die Thematisierung der schädigenden Folgen des Alkoholismus in der Schwangerschaft ist noch heute weitgehend ein Tabu. Auch 40 Jahre nach seiner Er...

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred ...

The book elucidates a practical method for prenatal screening and detecting Down syndrome in a simple and easy-to-understand language. It provides ...

From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determin...

Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand ...

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with th...

Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources funding healthcare, the American system continues to be dogged by persisten...

For all the political branding and rebranding of healthcare in the United States, its fundamental unit of currency remains the doctor-patient relat...

The first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. O...

The first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. O...